Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his adopted home,...

Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action movie —...

“Vamonos Con Pancho Villa!” (“Let’s Go With Pancho Villa!”) is the surprisingly dark, roughly hewn story of six friends who call themselves “the lions of San Pablo” and join the Mexican Revolution as much for the adventure as the idealism ... .

The 1968 animated Beatles musical "Yellow Submarine" has just been restored frame by frame and will screening Friday evening and Sunday afternoon at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre. The Beatles introduced the tune "All Together Now" in the movie that

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and producer James Schamus will be on hand at the Film Independent at LACMA screening Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater of their seminal 2005 drama "Brokeback Mountain."

Occupied City
A Novel
David Peace
Alfred A. Knopf: 288 pp., $25.95
David Peace raids fact for fiction, churning history and elements of his own life into hypnotic postmodern noir of almost unrivaled fury. His first four novels, which make up the...

"TWILIGHT: NEW MOON" COUNTDOWN In May, Hero Complex contributor Gina McIntyre traveled north to Vancouver to visit the set of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and talk to the creative minds behind one of the most anticipated films of 2009 ... .

"Red Cliff," John Woo's return to Chinese-language cinema after a decade and a half of Hollywood productions, cannot be viewed as anything less than a triumph. While it is not a return to the contemporary crime genre on which his reputation is built ("A Better

â¢ Brad Brevet comments on today's announcement of nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards, noting, "Focus Features' 'Coraline' topped the list of feature nominees with 10, with Pixar's 'Up' following with nine and Disney's 'Princess and the Frog' scorin

Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 7 - 13 in PDF format This week's TV movies BONES: Russell (Christian Slater, right) investigates remains found in a box in the season finale of "The Forgotten" at ...

Because we live in the cinema capital of the world, there's a high probability that you're familiar with legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. If not, you may want to catch up with a double feature at the Egyptian. First is the 1970 flick âDodes'

LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL "The People vs. George Lucas" screens Wednesday night at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Hero Complex contributor Noelene Clark caught with the film's producer and director of photography, Robert Muratore. Muratore and director Alex

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 8 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here BLIND LOVE: The lights are off but someoneâs home on the ...

Veronika Krausas' "The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth," lasting just over half an hour, for soprano and three witches, falls somewhere between a scena and a one-act opera. But then time is, as we know, relative, especially when the mind ...

It never took much to get Toru Takemitsu, the pioneering Japanese composer, drunk. A couple glasses of Scotch at a party after a concert could set him off on rambunctious descriptions of obscure Japanese science-fiction films. He knew them all, ...